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Friday, January 26, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Variety of Facts on the Jewish Welfare Front
Our People Abroad
The development of the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to the
point of maximum effectiveness is of concern
to Jews all over the world. The Joint Distri-
bution Committee has insistently urged the as-
sumption by various governments of responsi-
bility for their nationals, Jewish as well as
others.
Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman
of the JDC, points out realistically the import-
ance of JDC's role. He states:
"JDC will continue to bear the large re-
sponsibility for extended emergency relief to
hundreds of thousands of Jews still under
enemy control. UNRRA cannot act there. Only
JDC relief—the sole major source of aid —
spells the difference between life and death
for many there.
"The JDC will also have to continue to
care for many refugees who have found tem-
porary havens in neutral countries, especially
present war refugees. The JDC will have to
continue to provide basic help until and while
the organizations and operations of the
UNRRA in liberated areas are planned and set
up. The JDC will then have to provide sup-
plementary help to meet the needs of the Jew-
ish people.
"The Jews have been despoiled of all their
resources and will require special help. The
JDC will have to assist in special health prob-
lems—physical as well as mental—of those of
our suffering brethren who are now literally
creeping out of their hideouts. The JDC will
have to provide immediate assistance to revive
Jewish community, religious, and welfare in-
stitutions.
"Finally, the JDC must be ready to cooper-
ate with governments and intergovernmental
bodies, to plan for assistance in the economic
reconstruction of Jewish life, in retraining and
in aiding in the resettlement of those who will
not return to their former homes."
Our Children
New Appeals
The Children's Department of the Jewish
Social Service Bureau reports 78 children,
65 local and 13 refugees, under care on Jan. 1.
At its recent annual conference, the New
England States Region of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds expressed con-
cern with the growing number of appeals from
new agencies entering the field of overseas
service. The Region urged that:
Of the local children, 42 came from homes
broken because of divorce, separation or the
death or illness of a parent.
1. Wherever possible new needs be met by
existing agencies.
2. Before a new organization is created, an
attempt be made by existing organizations to
meet that need.
Ten had no homes because of the death of
both parents or death of one and desertion or
institutionalization of the other parent. Seven
were illegitimate, and six came from homes
where there were two parents, although in four
of these cases one was a step-parent.
3. If a new agency is needed its work be
coordinated with any existing agencies in the
same field.
4. The essential agencies operating over-
seas coordinate their services and fund raising.
5. This coordination be reflected locally m
a single campaign for all agencies justifying
community support.
Except for the few cases of full orphans,
the reason for JSSB care in every instance was
the physical or emotional inability of a parent
to care for his child. Through skilled case work
service the agency planned for each child the
kind of care best suited to individual needs.
Our Sick
Latest evidence that other Jewish com-
munities share Detroit's concern with problems
of the chronic sick comes from Kansas City,
Mo., where plans for a $750,000 medical center
have been announced.
The center will include an addition to
Menorah Hospital to provide facilities for the
chronically ill, a geriatrics clinic for research
into ailments of the aged, and a home for aged.
Approxiinately $500,000 of the $750,000 goal
already has been raised through efforts of the
special gifts committee of the Jewish Welfare
Federation of Kansas City in a four-week pre-
campaign effort.
The remainder is to be raised through gen-
eral solicitation of the Jewish. community.
Development of the co-related medical cen-
ter is the result of a year's study by the Fed-
eration's Planning Committee.
Refugee immigrants Urged
To Aid U. S. Study Project
Refugee immigrants residing in. this community, who entered
the U. S. during the past decade, are urged to cooperate with a
nation-wide study project regarding their adjustment to American
life by filling out questionnaires available at the offices of the
Resettlement Service, in a statement issued by Fred M. Butzel,
president.
The project is being conducted by the Committee for the Study
of Recent Immigration from Europe under the joint sponsorship of
the following five national refugee-aid agencies: American Com-
mittee for Christian Refugees, American Friends Service Commit-
tee, Catholic Committee for Refugees, National Refugee Service,
and the United States Committee for the Care of European Children.
Aims of the Committee Are Two-Fold
The aims of the Committee were described by Prof. Maurice R.
Davie, of Yale University, national director of the Study, as two-
fold:
1. To determine the degree of economic and social adjustment
that recent immigrants have made in the United States.
2. To learn what contributions the newcomers may have made
to the economic and cultural life of the country.
Mr. Butzel pointed out that the success of the study project
would depend largely on the cooperation extended by the recent
immigrants themselves. The questionnaires to be filled out need
riot be signed and all replies will be kept anonymous. Copies of
the questionnaire may be secured at Resettlement Service from Mrs.
Alice Schwab, 5737 Second Ave., TR. 2-4080. All newcomers to
this country who have not received a copy are urged to apply for
one as soon as possible.
Forty-seven children were living in foster
homes, six in the agency's temporary horrie, 12
in institutions, and three in adoption homes.
Three Were living together with one parent in
a boarding home, five were in their own homes
being supervised by the agency, and two were
living under other arrangements.
In common with agencies all over the coun-
try the Jewish Social Service Bureau is con-
tinuously concerned with the probleni of find-
ing foster homes.
Despite the present shortage, it has not
found it necessary to lower standards in its re-
quirements for foster parents. For children
with severe emotional disturbances, however;
there is a lack of community facilities. This is
a problem shared by the entire community.
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